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Top Five-and-two-Halves Droid Apps for this Graphic Recorder

When it comes to technology, I think I’m a bit of a Luddite.  (Come on, I work with pens and paper!)  I have been using a Crackberry for the last few years, though...mainly to access e-mail.  Well, Shannon King’s Lunch-and-Learn session the other day opened my eyes and pushed me over the edge...I have officially ordered my first Driod smartphone!  (It’s all about how the Apps can enhance my business.)  Since placing my order, I’ve been doing a bit of browsing in the Droid Marketplace.  Here are the first five (and a half) Apps I plan to load onto my new Droid X...

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intro2gr: Introduction the Graphic Recording Workshop

Do you?

Or do you know someone?

Or do you know someone who would know someone?

Who is interested in learning the fundamental skills of graphic recording??? 

Emily Shepard and Lynn Caruthers are offering our weekend graphic recording workshop again, Saturday and Sunday, October 16 and 17.  Their May pilot workshop sold out. They received great feedback and keep hearing success stories from participants, so they are offering our new and improved version.

Official link: http://intro2gr.com/index.htm

The room is filling up. Register today to claim a spot on the wall!

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Master Facilitator Journal: Be Your Material

Your "message" is far more than the material you present.

From Master Facilitation Journal:

Self-Facilitation Skill

Once long ago, when asked by a reporter if he had a message he wanted the world to hear, Gandhi replied, "My life is my message."

Whether we like it or not, this statement is just as true for you and me today as it was for Gandhi then. Who we are and how we are is the medium through which our message travels. That medium is far richer and truer than what we say in words. 

When we present our material to a group we are facilitating or training, what we're really presenting is ourselves. Our deepest, thoughts, feelings, fears, hopes, and aspirations come through as an unspoken wave of information that others pick up at a level usually below their conscious awareness. Yet this material influences others more powerfully than mere words. So in a very real way, you are your material, and your life is your message!

Labor Day Inspiration: Free and Cool (vol. 4)

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It's free. It's cool. It's 36 pages of Magic.

And as always, the latest issue of the Free and Cool zine is exclusively available right here for download.

This issue features a whole slew of artists you'll want to meet: Aphte, Conor Keller, Anton Weflö, Maxime Francout, Rmk, Fafé, Fanny Claude, Florentin Bodet, Club Muscles, Corey Thompson, Anke Weckmann, Mathieu Lambert, Rand Renfrow, Aurélie Grand, Tristan Pernet, Jesse Robinson Williams, Connor Annal, Yohan Sacré, Bosque Studio, Antoine Orand.

Download your free copy, and then join them on Facebook.

Sunni Brown’s Ignite Talk at FOO Camp: The Doodle Revolution | VizThink

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At FOO Camp 2010, this radical sketchnotista leaves it all on the stage in this speed round of deconstructing the dynamics of doodles and how we learn and make stuff happen!

Sunni Brown, Sharpie's official resident doodler based in Austin, proclaims:

"Bring on the freakin' Doodle Revolution!"

Check out the impact that Sunni Brown, founder of Brightspot and co-author Dave Gray, founder of Xplane, are having with their new book, Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers .

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Dan Roam's "Back of the Napkin" Conference Sept 16-17

 
Last chance to join Dan in NY Sept 16-17, 2010

Join Dan Roam, author of the best-selling The Back of the Napkin series, for his visual thinking conference in NYC! This is the complete two-day visual training that Dan has delivered at Microsoft, eBay, Boeing, Gap, Kraft, the US Navy, and the United States Senate.

Register Here.
https://www.regonline.com/the_back_of_the_napkin_training_conference_ny_sept

Affinia Manhattan Hotel, New York

Attendees receive:

• Two full days of hands-on visual problem solving
• The Back of the Napkin Expanded Edition
• Unfolding the Napkin Workbook
• Personal whiteboard and drawing tools

For full details, visit The Back of the Napkin.com.

See video of Dan Roam's Keynote Speech at the 15th International Forum of Visual Practitioners Conference.